Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27126610-20181025025612/@comment-26045423-20181027231604

The novel gives us answer.... according to the devil's lair summary: DA is created when one of two circumstances are met:

1) the demon loses a fight and admits they lost and had no chance of winning.

2) the demon refuses to outwardly admit they stood no chance, but knows it deepdown (like beowulf)

So yea...